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The federal government says oil and gas operators continue to evacuate offshore platforms and rigs in Tropical Storm Isaac's likely path through the Gulf of Mexico. The bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement says 39 production platforms and eight drilling rigs have been evacuated.
That's about 6.5 percent of the...

WATONGA, Okla. (AP) - Authorities in Blaine County say an oil rig that exploded near Watonga and forced the evacuation of several homes caused no injuries.
Blaine County Sheriff's dispatcher C.J. Woulard said Tuesday morning that the fire was still burning - but no injuries were reported.
County...

The Coast Guard is saying that a mile-long oil sheen is spreading from the site off an offshore petroleum platform that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana.
The site of the explosion is west of where BP's massive spill occurred.
The Coast Guard said no one...

An offshore oil rig has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, west of the site of the April blast that caused the massive oil spill.
Coast Guard Petty Officer Casey Ranel says the blast was reported by a commercial helicopter company about 9:30 a.m. CDT Thursday. Seven helicopters, two...

Despite the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu is reiterating her call to end the Obama administration's moratorium on deepwater drilling, saying it will cause economic hardship in the region.
Speaking Thursday on ABC's "Good Morning America," Landrieu said the moratorium was issued...

Two workers injured when an oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico told Congress that the companies in charge of the doomed drilling operation cut corners and neglected maintenance in a race toward higher profits.
Laborer Stephen Stone told the House Judiciary Committee Thursday that the companies gambled...

An Associated Press investigation has found government reports about dozens of offshore oil wells where cementing failed, as it may have in the Gulf of Mexico disaster.
The AP review of federal accident and incident reports implicates cementing at least 34 times since 1978. Many of the reports identify...

Reporting its first success in containing the massive Gulf oil leak nearly a month after it started, BP on Sunday said oil and natural gas were flowing via a mile-long pipe to a ship at the surface.
Yet even as the company reported the success, scientists warned oil that...

Congress begins hearings today on the massive oil spill threatening sensitive marshes and marine life along the Gulf Coast and the blame game is in high gear.
Executives of the three companies involved in the drilling activities that unleashed the environmental crisis are trying to shift responsibility to each...

Fishermen rushed to scoop up shrimp and crews spread floating barriers around marshes as a faint glaze of oil started to wash ashore along the Gulf Coast from a sunken rig.
The oil slick could become the nation's worst environmental disaster in decades, threatening hundreds of species of fish,...

BP officials say they are hoping to try an unusual technique to stop the flow of oil from a blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico.
BP PLC chief operating officer Doug Suttles says the company is studying whether to use chemicals to break up the oil under water....

A C-DOT snowplow was hit by a semi-truck on I-25 Wednesday, sending two people to the hospital.
According to the Colorado State Patrol, the snowplow was clearing the left southbound lane. A semidriven by Kyle Somers, 21 of Rutherglen, VA was also in the left lane. Somers, swerved at...